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Title: Repeated differentiation evens out spacings of zeros
Speaker: Robin Pemantle
Speaker Info: University of Pennsylvania
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A function is selected at random so that its zeros form a unit intensity point process on the real line. We show that iterated differentiation causes the zeros of this function to approach a lattice, that is, to become equally spaced. This is joint work with Sneha Subramanian.